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A musical clock made in Blackfriars, 1598 by Nicholas Vallin.

The way we perceive and organise time is shaped to a large extent by our ability to measure it. Shakespeare’s audience would have been familiar with clocks and telling the time: there are over 80 references to clocks in his plays, making it clear to us that ‘Shakespearean’ time was well on its way to being modern time.